Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
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    UUHDEMÉ

    Mama had a daughter, and she named her Udeme. Her classmates referred to her as UUHDEMÉ, because that was what her mother had wr...

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    EASY IS HARD

    Easy is hard. Ask the ancestors. Women don't come cheap, food doesn't come because you planted and war doesn't seek ...

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    THE UNWILLING

    She spat the words that brought me to life. Again. They say that life is a confirmation of hope, a surety of the triumph of will...

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    TILL THE END

    I hear voices in my head. They’re not the same, They don’t sound the same. I know they’re strange and shouldn’t be there. They a...

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    DEATH

    I hear that death has many faces. I hear that it could be a booby trap or an unfortunate electrocution. It could be a slip on a ...

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    TAMMY SMITH

    First, she stopped sleeping. How could she sleep when all she saw in her dreams was blood? It was always everywhere. It would st...

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    AN ODE TO FOOD

    There's many uses for food:  to be savoured,  to be eaten,  to combat grief and loneliness,  to drown out hateful comments. ...

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    A PRESENT PAST

    Sit. Sit there. Let me tell you a story. A heart ripped into shreds, a blanket of nothingness and a bowl of black water. Eat. Ea...

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    BLACK GOLD

    The guns came first. They did not come in spraying bullets and riddling the air with the smell of gunpowder and blood and sand, ...

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